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I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year (albeit
extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock festival London
version?
--
Ian

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year (albeit
extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock festival London
version?

I think there was an nannouncement, on-screen notice I think, before the
"new-fangled rock festival" saying that the Red Button was showing the
North British programme.

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?

No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert was
good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?

No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert
was good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?
No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert
was good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

Ah, I've got it:

Andy Stewart!

No, they had a few bits from Ally Bain, but the rest was pop music. The
BBC does not cater for people aged over 60. They just wish we would
hurry up and die.

Having said that, the Scottish thing was better than the English thing.

I also watch Last Tango in Halifax. There was an entirely spurious line
condemning Nigel Farage, clearly crowbarred in. It jarred because it was
so out of context. The storyline about the lesbians was useful to the
BBC because they were able to portray the hate figure (the Daily Mail
reading lady) as being narrow minded and prejudiced, oh, and racist as
well. They also managed to insert a little 'public information film'
that could have been called "Don't be rude to lesbians or you will be up
on a homophobia charge, so watch it."

In the last series, we had the main characters discuss politics,
unrelated to the story lines.
Jacibi gave a long speech about sticking up for the average man but then
veered
off into praising Michael Foot and Gordon Brown. The woman
was accused of being a Thatcherite and was suitably wishy washy with her
opinions
to give the impression that she did not know any better and was just stupid.

The accents are risible. Derek Jacobi's attempts to sound Yorkshire had
us in stitches.

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?
No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert
was good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

Ah, I've got it:

Andy Stewart!

No, they had a few bits from Ally Bain, but the rest was pop music.
The BBC does not cater for people aged over 60. They just wish we
would hurry up and die.

I'm (quick finger count) 64, so I also suffer this.
Having said that, the Scottish thing was better than the English
thing.

I also watch Last Tango in Halifax. There was an entirely spurious
line condemning Nigel Farage, clearly crowbarred in. It jarred
because it was so out of context. The storyline about the lesbians
was useful to the BBC because they were able to portray the hate
figure (the Daily Mail reading lady) as being narrow minded and
prejudiced, oh, and racist as well. They also managed to insert a
little 'public information film' that could have been called "Don't
be rude to lesbians or you will be up on a homophobia charge, so
watch it."

In the last series, we had the main characters discuss politics,
unrelated to the story lines.
Jacibi gave a long speech about sticking up for the average man but
then veered
off into praising Michael Foot and Gordon Brown. The woman
was accused of being a Thatcherite and was suitably wishy washy with
her opinions
to give the impression that she did not know any better and was just
stupid.

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?
No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert
was good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

Ah, I've got it:
Andy Stewart!

No, they had a few bits from Ally Bain, but the rest was pop music. The
BBC does not cater for people aged over 60. They just wish we would
hurry up and die.

Probably even more-so if they have reached 75, and no longer need to pay
for the TV licence.

Having said that, the Scottish thing was better than the English thing.

Even then, it was maybe a bit too slick and 'jazzed-up' for my liking.
I preferred the guid auld days when it was sometimes fairly obvious that
some of the presenters and performers had been the partying since quite
early in the day.

As for the London do, the last song went on for so long that I was
becoming increasingly alarmed that it was going to crash Big Ben
striking midnight. It almost seemed as if they had completely forgotten
about it. They only got there with about 10 seconds to spare before the
first 'ding' of the first ding dong, ding dong.

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?

No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert
was good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

I wonder how many Freeview viewers knew that they could have been
watching the North Britain version of seeing-in of the New Year
(albeit extremely sanitised), instead of the new-fangled rock
festival London version?

No, but why would I have done that? The Queen/Adam Lambert concert
was good, in our opinion. What did the Northern Show show?

Ah, I've got it:

Andy Stewart!

isn't he dead yet!

Wikipedia says he died in 1993 (only 59). Chick Murray and Maidie are
also dead.
--
Ian